Apple introduced M5 Pro and M5 Max in March 2026 with a new term for how the chips are built: Fusion Architecture. Apple’s own words call the pair “a monumental leap forward for Apple silicon,” and Fusion Architecture is the name Apple has given to the design approach behind that leap. M5-generation silicon, the family…
Mike Peterson
Mike is a technology journalist with a deep focus on Apple’s Mac ecosystem. He has spent years tracking macOS development, Apple Silicon architecture, and system-level changes across major macOS versions. His reporting covers everything from kernel-level enhancements and Swift-based APIs to hardware teardown analysis of M-series chips.
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M6 Chip Explained: Apple's First 2-Nanometer Mac Chip
M6 is Apple’s newest Mac chip and, by Apple’s own description, its first built on a 2-nanometer process. Apple introduced it on August 25, 2026, and it ships in the base Mac mini, on sale September 22 at $899. Mac mini with M6, the first Mac built on Apple's 2-nanometer process. Image: Apple That makes…
Apple Card's Daily Cash, Family Sharing and Savings Account Are Not Part of the Chase Move
Apple Card’s three headline terms, up to 3 percent unlimited Daily Cash back, Apple Card Family, and access to a high-yield Savings account, are restated by Apple in the same release that announces Chase becoming its new issuer. Apple lists all three as continuing features, not as items under review during the transition. Apple Card…
Apple Pay Is in 89 Markets With 11,000 Bank Partners, by Apple's Own Count
Apple Pay is available in 89 markets with more than 11,000 banks and network partners, according to Apple’s own services report. The same report credits Apple Pay with eliminating well over $1 billion in fraud and generating more than $100 billion in incremental merchant sales, figures Apple has published about a service most people only…
Apple Card Is Moving to Chase. Here Is What Apple Confirmed, and What Is Only Reported
Apple confirmed in January that Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, moving the card away from Goldman Sachs over what Apple calls approximately 24 months. That is the whole of what Apple itself has said. A widely cited figure, that the deal moves over $20 billion in card balances, comes from reporting…
Apple Upgrade Excludes iPhone 16 and Apple Watch SE. Here Is the Full Eligibility List
Apple Upgrade’s launch list names which iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad models actually qualify for a lease, and which do not. iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus and Apple Watch SE are explicitly excluded. That eligibility list, not the monthly price, is the part of Apple’s July 28 announcement that decides whether a shopper can…
iCloud+ Family Sharing Covers Up to Five Other People, at Every Tier
Every iCloud+ tier, from the $0.99 50GB plan up to the $59.99 12TB plan, includes family sharing for up to five other members, according to Apple’s own support page. That is the only family-sharing headcount Apple publishes across its current storage and subscription pricing. iCloud+ family sharing works the same way regardless of which iPhone…
Turn Off iCloud Backup and Apple Keeps It for Exactly 180 Days
Apple states that if iCloud Backup is turned off for a device, any backups already stored in iCloud are kept for 180 days before being deleted. That single sentence, from Apple’s own support documentation, is the only expiration window Apple publishes for a consumer’s iCloud backups. Apple's backup guidance is written for iOS 26 today,…
iCloud+ Pricing in Full: Five Tiers From $0.99 to $59.99, and What Each Adds Beyond Storage
Apple prices iCloud+ storage at five tiers, from 50GB at $0.99 a month up to 12TB at $59.99 a month in the United States, according to Apple’s own support page. Every tier, cheapest to most expensive, bundles the same set of extra features on top of the storage itself. iCloud+ is set up from the…
Apple Says Its New Mac Mini Is Twice as Fast at Gaming With Ray Tracing
Apple says its new Mac mini, built around the M6 chip, delivers up to twice the gaming performance with ray tracing compared with the previous M4 chip. Apple published the claim in an August 2026 newsroom release, and the Mac mini itself goes on general sale Tuesday, September 22, 2026. Apple's iPhone 18 Pro. Apple's…
Apple Arcade's October 1 Exclusive Is a Pusheen Game, and Terraria+ Gets a Crossover
Apple Arcade’s headline addition on Thursday, October 1, 2026 is Pusheen’s Place, an exclusive built around the cartoon cat Pusheen. The same day, Terraria+ receives an update Apple calls Bigger & Boulder, which adds crossover content from Dead Cells and Palworld. Apple named both, along with three other titles, in a newsroom post dated September…
Hi-Res Lossless Comes to Apple TV, and Apple Hasn't Said What It Takes to Hear It
Apple Music’s Hi-Res Lossless audio tier is coming to tvOS, Apple confirmed as part of its June 9, 2026 services announcements. Apple named the feature outright. It did not say which Apple TV model, which speakers, or which connection a viewer needs to actually hear the difference. Apple's tvOS audio update names a format, Hi-Res…
Apple Music Replay 2026 Adds an All-Time View of Your Most-Played Songs
Apple Music’s annual Replay recap is live for 2026, and it now includes a new view called Replay All Time, which totals the songs a listener has played most since the day they joined Apple Music rather than just the past year. Apple named it alongside two other 2026 additions to the app, Library Pins…
Chris Pratt's Way of the Warrior Kid ends Apple TV's 2026 film slate November 20
Way of the Warrior Kid is Apple TV’s next original film, starring Chris Pratt and Jude Hill, and it premieres Friday, November 20, 2026. Apple named the film, its two leads and the date in its 2026 slate release, alongside a dozen other series and films for the year. Apple's 2026 Apple TV film slate…
Nocturne's Ten Episodes Run Weekly on Apple TV Through Christmas Day
Nocturne premieres on Apple TV Friday, October 30, 2026, with its first two episodes, then adds one new episode every Friday until its tenth and final episode lands on Friday, December 25, 2026, Christmas Day. Apple published the entire pattern itself, in a July 2026 Apple TV press release. Apple's Apple TV press releases run…
Apple TV Has Five Dated Premieres Between Now and November 20
Apple TV has confirmed five premiere dates between Wednesday, September 23 and Friday, November 20, 2026: the comedy series Brothers, the comedy series Small Prophets, the film Matchbox The Movie, the crime drama Nocturne and the film Way of the Warrior Kid. Every date below comes from an Apple newsroom or Apple TV press release,…
Apple Has Not Set a Commission Rate for App Store Link-Out Purchases in the US
A federal appeals court’s ruling already requires Apple to let App Store developers in the United States link customers out of an app to finish a purchase on the web. What that same ruling left open is whether Apple may charge a commission on those purchases at all, and if so, how much. As of…
Apple's Other Antitrust Fights: Where the DOJ Case and the UK's CMA Stand Now
Apple’s Supreme Court appeal against Epic Games is not its only antitrust fight. The Department of Justice’s civil monopolization suit against Apple is heading toward a 2027 trial with no date yet set, and the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority has spent the past year building out a regulatory framework under a formal designation…
Apple's App Store Link-Out Injunction Is Live, and Here Is What Changed for Developers
The injunction requiring Apple to let App Store developers link out to outside payment options is in force right now. It has been since the Supreme Court declined to pause it in August 2026, and it stays in force while Apple’s separate appeal to the Supreme Court proceeds on a different, narrower question. The injunction…
The Supreme Court Took Apple's Epic Appeal, but Only on One Narrow Question
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court granted Apple’s petition in Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc., No. 25-1311, with one limiting phrase: “limited to Question 1 presented by the petition.” That phrase excludes Apple’s App Store commission and steering rules from review, even though the grant is widely treated as the Court agreeing to…
Apple's Supreme Court Brief in the Epic Case Is Due Monday, September 14
Apple’s opening merits brief at the Supreme Court in Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc., No. 25-1311, is due Monday, September 14, 2026. The single question the Court agreed in June to decide is the standard for imposing a civil contempt sanction, not whether Apple’s App Store rules violate antitrust law. The App Store on…
App Store Age Ratings: Every Deadline on Apple's 2026 Compliance Calendar
Apple’s App Store age-rating questionnaire now includes new social media questions, and developer responses to them became required in September 2026, the most current entry on a rolling compliance calendar that runs back to July 2025. Apple has published eight separate age-rating and age-assurance changes over that period, each with its own publish date and…
Apple's Developer Program License Agreement: Two Updates Due Before October 1
Apple has published two separate updates to its Developer Program License Agreement this year, one carrying new European Union terms and one carrying new Brazil terms, and both require a developer’s signature before Thursday, October 1, 2026. Apple’s developer news dated the EU version August 18, 2026, and the Brazil version June 18, 2026: two…
Apple's EU App Store Deadline: What Developers Must Do Before October 1
Apple’s new business terms for apps in the European Union take effect Thursday, October 1, 2026, which by September 12 leaves developers under three weeks to act. Apple’s own pages point to four things to check before then: sign the updated developer agreement, choose payment options with a 12-month lock-in in mind, confirm marketplace eligibility…